Blenheim House Hotel, 14 Westgate, North Berwick is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 May 1988. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
Blenheim House Hotel, 14 Westgate, North Berwick
- WRENN ID
- tilted-gargoyle-moth
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1988
- Type
- Hotel
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Circa 1860. 2-storey simplified Italianate villa, originally of 3 bays with flanking single storey wings, with E wing raised and further bay sympathetically added; J M Dick Peddie, 1895 (creating neo-symmetrical facade). Squared and coursed rubble sides, partly harled at rear. Painted ashlar front, rusticated quoins, raised cill and eaves courses and margins. Eaves cornice at front.
ORIGINAL HOUSE: S ELEVATION: tripartite classical porch with pedestalled piers, cornice and balustrade. Advanced flanking bays with tripartites at ground; apron panels to 1st floor single lights. Single bay, single storey, flat-roofed wings.
N ELEVATION: tall round arched stair window at centre; advanced bay to right with full-height canted bay. Modern addition at ground and alterations to wings.
EXTENSION OF 1895; S ELEVATION: advanced outer bay to E similarly detailed with bipartite at ground; single bay above recessed wing bridging with extension.
N ELEVATION: pedimented and advanced outer bay with full-height canted window; recessed single bay to right.
Plate glass sash and case windows. Low pitched slate roofs. End and roof stacks.
INTERIOR: much altered for hotel purposes. Stone, dog leg stair with decorative cast-iron balustrade. Panelled doors. Tiled vestibule.
BOUNDARY WALLS: rubble-built, including retaining wall to S.
Detailed Attributes
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